The companion to the bestselling Dealing with People You Can't Stand。 Whether it's the overbearing mother-in-law, the complaining uncle, or just the brother who annoys you at Thanksgiving, here is expert advice on how to successfully deal with every kind of behavior or situation that families face. Divided into three essential sections: Basic Training, Types of Behavior, and Tough Situations, Dealing with Relatives covers all the skills required to navigate and survive dreaded gatherings and excruciating visits. From learning "The Art of the Apology," to understanding the personality types common to most families, Drs. Rick and Rick come to the rescue once again by applying their winning combination of savvy advice and quick wit, along with new insights, anecdotes, and appealing cartoons. 作者简介： Dr.Rick Kirschner and Rick Brinkman are naturopathic physicians,professional speakers,and trainers who perform more than 150 programs a year all over the world.They are coatuhors of th

How can today's girls become tomorrow's successful women?Should your daughter's compet-itive stread be encouraged?You'll find the answers to these and many other questions in this Miniature Edition tm of the best-selling See Jane Win,Based on extensive research by noted child psychologist Sylvia Rimm with her two daughters,See Jane Win provides information gathered from women in many fields,from medicine and lawt to arts and education.Presented here is honest,formed advice on helping girls deal with everything from advanced courses to the beauty myth,and how to give young women all they need to succeed. 作者简介： Dr.Sylvia Rimm is director of The Family Achievement Clinic and a clinical professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.She is a conttributing correspondent to NBC's Today show,and has written fourteen books

Living on the Nottinghamshire coalfields, the Morel family is beset with conflict. Gertrude, disillusioned with her inarticulate working class husband, pours her energies and aspirations into her son, Paul. Tensions develop when Paul falls in love and seeks to escape from his family ties.

Magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide thematerials for one of Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies. Whenfour young lovers, fleeing the Athenian law and their ownmismatched rivalries, take to the forest of Athens, their livesbecome entangled with a feud between the King and Queen of theFairies. Some Athenian tradesmen, rehearsing a play for theforthcoming wedding of Duke Theseus and his bride, Hippolyta,unintentionally add to the hilarity. The result is a marvelousmix-up of desire and enchantment, merriment and farce, all touchedby Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationshipbetween art and life, dreams and the waking world.

Here are Masters's dramatic monologues written in free verseabout a fictional Midwestern town called Spoon River. The dead,"sleeping on the hill" in their village cemetery, awaken to tellthe truth about their lives, toppling the myth of the moralsuperiority of small-town life.

Among Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is considered the jewel in the crown of a triumphant theatrical career. Now Kenneth Branagh plays the leading role and co-directs a brillant ensemble performance. Three generations of legendary leading actors, many of whom first assembled for the Oscar-winning film Henry V, gather here to perform the rarely heard complete version of the play. This clear, subtly nuanced, stunning dramatization, presented by The Renaissance Theatre Company in association with Bbc Broadcasting, features such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, Emma Thompson and Christopher Ravenscroft. It combines a full cast with stirring music and sound effects to bring this magnificent Shakespearen classic vividly to life. Revealing new riches with each listening, this production of Hamlet is an invaluable aid for students, teachers and all true lovers of Shakespeare -- a recording to be treasured for decades

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective，Sherlock Holmes，in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast with blazing eyes and dripping jaws'which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated gaskerville Hall on Dartmoor. Now the hound seems to be stalking young Sir Henry，the new master of the Baskerville estate. Is this fiendish spectre the manifestation of the family curse？Or is Sir Henry the victim of a vile and scheming murderer？Only Sherlock Holmes can solve this devilish affair. The Hound of the Baskervilles is introduced by David Stuart Davies，Editor of Sherlock Holmes-The Detective Magazine and several books concerning Sherlock Holmes.

The Call Of The Wild is the story of Buck, a dog stolen fromhis home and thrust into the merciless life of the Arctic north toendure hardship, bitter cold, and the savage lawlessness of man andbeast. White Fang is the adventure of an animal -- part dog, partwolf --turned vicious by cruel abuse, then transformed by thepatience and affection of one man. Jack London's superb ability as a storyteller and his uncannyunderstanding of animal and human natures give these tales astriking vitality and power, and have earned him a reputation as adistinguished American writer.

From the incredible wizadry of Merlin to the passion of SirLancelot, these tales of Arthur and his knights offer epicadventures with the supernatural as well as timeless battles without own humanity.

This is one of Shakespeare’s darkest comedies, for theromantic story of a young man, Bassanio, who has squandered hisfortune and must borrow money to woo the wealthy lady he loves isset against the more disturbing story of the Jewish moneylenderShylock and his demand for the “pound of flesh” owed him by theVenetian merchant, Antonio. Here pathos and farce combine withmoral complexity and romantic entanglement to display theextraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best. Each Edition Includes: ? Comprehensive explanatory notes ? Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship ? Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enablingcontemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English ? Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performancehistories ? An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, alongwith an extensive filmography

Troilus and Cressida is perhaps Shakespeare's mostphilosophical play, and its preoccupation with war, sex, and timehas seemed peculiarly relevant since the First World War. Fineproductions have demonstrated the play's theatrical power, andcritics have explored and illuminated its ideas and itsexceptionally complex language. Kenneth Muir, in his introduction,sets the play in its historical context, discusses its odd careerin the theatre, examines Shakespeare's handling of his multiplesources, and assesses the contribution of interpretative criticismto a deeper understanding of this sombre examination of a fallenworld. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailableedition of this title.

The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American romancenovel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne; it is generally considered tobe his masterpiece. Set in Puritan New England in the 17th century,the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth aftercommitting adultery, refuses to name the father, and struggles tocreate a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout, Hawthorneexplores the issues of grace, legalism, and guilt.

With dramatic eloquence, this story of the French Revolutionbrings to life a time of terror and treason, and a starving peoplerising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadentregime.

From Hector St 10hn de Crevecoeurs defining statement ofAmericanism to Harlem Renaissance figure Claude McKaysobservationson race，here are both rousing and heartbreaking impressions ofthose who departed from their homelands in the hopes of making anew 1ire A thirteen-year-old boy's arrival from Scotland isrelated-a boy who would later become millionaire industrialistAndrew Carnegie other American SUCCESS Stories tell of immigrants'efforts to reconcile old traditions with their new land Includedare the experiences Of Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Bok.1nventorMichael Pupin，renowned social reformer Jacob Riis，one of the firstAmerican female physicians，Marie Zakrzewska，as well as those whocame from India，China，Korea，Syria，and Mexico to make their mark onthe “New World”.

Jack London's adventure masterpiece is not only a vivid account of the Klondike gold rush and North American Indian life, but it is also an intriguing study of the effects different environments have on an individual. Celebrate the centennial anniversary of the classic tale of a wolf-dog who endures great cruelty before he comes to know human kindness.

Volume two in a collection of tales representing distinctivegenres- from fairy tales to erotica-revealing the customs andsocieties in the medieval Middle East, as told by the mythicSheherazade.

In Forster's most popular novel, he tracks British society'sclass warfare, as seen by members of three different castes-thewealthy Wilcoxes, the cultured and emancipated Schlegal sisters,and poor, young Leonard Bast.

andquot; My intention is to portray a truly beautifulsoul.andquot; -- Dostoevsky Despite the harsh circumstancesbesetting his own life -- object poverty, incessant gambling, thedeath of his firstborn child -- Dostoevsky produced a secondmasterpiece, The Idiot, just two years after completing Crime andPunishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust intothe heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power and sexualconquest than with the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon findshimself at the center of a violent love triangle in which anotorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for hisaffections. Extortion, scandal and murder follow, testing Myshkin'smoral feelings as Dostoevsky searches through the wreckage left byhuman misery to find andquot; man in man.andquot; The Idiot is aquintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complexpsyche of the Russian people. andquot; They call me a psychologist,andquot; wrote Dostoevsky. andquot; That is not true. I'm only arealist in

在线阅读本书 The story of an Ancient Roman soldier whose political machinationsand military might gain him heroic status, but ultimately lead tohis assassination.

This intriguing work tackles the seminal American issue ofslavery in an antebellum tragicomedy of switched identities, as afreeborn child and a slave child change places. The result is abiting social commentary-plus a good old-fashioned murdermystery...

Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's Summer created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman's sexual awakening. Summer is the story of Charity Royall, a child of mountain moonshiners adopted by a family in a poor New England town, who has a passionate love affair with Lucius Harney, an educated man from the city. Wharton broke the conventions of women's romantic fiction by making Charity a thoroughly independent modern woman—in touch with her emotions and sexuality, yet kept from love and the larger world she craves by the overwhelming pressures of heredity and society. Praised for its realism and honesty by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Summer remains as fresh and powerful a novel today as when it was first written.

This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's mostimportant early peoms, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece,The Waste Land, which has long been regarded as one of thefundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements frommany diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speechlinked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos anddisillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of WWI. * The Waste Land is a modernist literary masterpiece. * Contains a number of early poems, including Spleen, The Deathof St. Narcissus, The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes,Gerontion, The Hippopotmaus, and Sweeny Among theNightingales. * T.S Eliot is the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature,and is one of America's greatest poets. * Edited and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler, a foremostscholar of moderism at Harvard University who writes regularly forthe New Yorker and The New Republic. * Vendler is also the author of books on other